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  • The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

    Heart   Self   Cafeteria  
  • Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.

    Tears   Gone   Down And  
    "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.
  • An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

    "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". December 9, 2003.
  • Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

    Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.88, Princeton University Press
  • The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.

    Pain   Revenge   Ties  
    "Why Charging People With Homicide For Overdose Deaths Is Revenge And Not Justice" by Brooke M. Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2017.
  • She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

  • Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

    Powerful   Home   Blue  
  • Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.

  • Every day of my life it feels as if I'm fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down. And no matter how fast or how hard I run to try to reach the top, I stay in the same place, sprinting, getting nowhere.

    Colleen Hoover (2015). “Confess: A Novel”, p.104, Simon and Schuster
  • Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

    "Inequality for All: Robert Reich Warns Record Income Gap Is Undermining Our Democracy". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 13, 2013.
  • There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

    Funny   Humor   Power  
  • There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps.

    Hockey   Nhl   Steps  
  • To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

    Dream   Spring   Secret  
    Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.734, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

    Funny   Girl   Humor  
  • There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

    Ocean   Book   Blue  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam
  • The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in love with a princess, right? Someone who faces every challenge in life with a cheerful Wahoo! In London a bike messenger stopped me and said ‘You’re the bloke who does Mario’ on an escalator. So naturally I go ‘Wahooooo’ all the way up the stairs.

  • In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!"

    Funny   Humor   Men  
  • In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

    Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan
  • Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

    "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". 2003.
  • I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators.

    Funny   Guy   Comedy  
    "Underneath that pasty exterior beats the dark heart of a comic". Interview with John Wenzel, www.denverpost.com. October 10, 2008.
  • I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

    Details   Maps   Online  
    "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.
  • It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

    "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.
  • It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

    Sharks   Space   Swim  
  • The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

    Climbing   Mind   Might  
  • I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen

  • I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

    Funny   Humor   Guy  
    "Underneath that pasty exterior beats the dark heart of a comic". Interview with John Wenzel, www.denverpost.com. October 10, 2008.
  • My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.

    Funny   Humor   Years  
    "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.
  • An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

    Funny   Sorry   Humor  
  • People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

  • Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

    World   Century   Metro  
    "Dr. Gridlock". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.
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